Re: Tunneling LWP https requests through an existing socket.

Peteris Krumins [Newsgroups] wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Any ideas how I could re-use an existing socket (for example 
> IO::Socket::Socks connection to a socks proxy server) to send https 
> traffic through it?
> The problem which I am facing is that there seems to be no way I can 
> tell Net::SSL package to use an existing file handle/socket for 
> sending data.
>
> Net::SSL's connect() function calls only Crypt::SSLeay::Conn->new(); 
> to create a new socket and there is no way I can override it or pass 
> my socket to it.
>
>
> Any ideas how I could get it working?

Ok, having researched a little more I found that the other way to get 
SSL going is by using IO::Socket::SSL which provides a nifty constructor 
start_SSL($socket)
which uses an existing socket for communications.

Now if only I could get IO::Socket::SSL working under ActiveState Perl...


P.Krumins